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Armchair traveller
(posted 14 Apr 2008)
The book I’m working on now takes place all over the world. I’ve enjoyed reading about locales that are foreign to me–some of them places I’ve always wanted to go, other places I’ve never really thought of. Like Melbourne Australia. I’ve just never really been intrigued by Australia.
I have a lot of friends from Australia thanks to writing for Silhouette. In fact I have friends from all over the world now. People who have lived outside of the U.S. and brought back with them tales and traditions from other countries.
I’m also having fun exploring traditions. My background is Italian-American on my mom’s side and Irish-American on my father’s. There was a time when they would never have been allowed to marry, but they met in the 60s in Miami so that wasn’t a problem.
Some of the traditions I’m using in this book are the superstitions that many Italians have. It’s funny that devoutly Catholic people would be so superstitious but we are. So this book is dealing with a curse put on one Italian family by another one.
I can still remember my grandmother (first generation American born) showing my cousins and I how to put the evil eye on someone. It’s a strong curse and one she wouldn’t do when any of us were standing in front of her. So to be honest I’m not exactly sure how to do it…I mean from the side I know what it looks like but facing someone I’m lost!
To be honest I don’t believe that strongly in curses. But then I’m an optimist and believe that things will just naturally get better. What about you? Believe in curses or some other tradition that has been in your family for years?
Kathy 